The document discusses the role of a product owner in an agile environment and considerations for federal employees serving as product owners. A product owner ensures the development team builds the right product by collaborating with stakeholders, prioritizing the product backlog, and validating the product. For federal employees to be effective product owners, they need sufficient bandwidth, decision-making power, domain knowledge, interest in the product, and ability to provide strategic direction. The document concludes by emphasizing understanding the product owner role and having the right traits to be a federal product owner.

1. Making Federal
Product Ownership
Work

2. Richard Cheng - @RichardKCheng
• Agile trainer & coach
• CST, CSM, CSPO, CSP, SPC, PMP, PMI-ACP
• Founder & executive committee
member of Agile Delivery for Agencies,
Programs, and Teams (ADAPT)
• Experience in Federal and commercial
Agile transformations

3. What is a Product Owner?
Ensures we are building the right thing

4. Project Management vs.
Product Management

5. Feds as Product Owners

6. 1. Bandwidth
2. Power
3. Knowledge
4. Interest
5. Direction
Qualities of a Good
Product Owner

7. Product Owner Activities
Work
with the
Scrum
team
•Release Planning
•Sprint Planning
•Daily Scrum
•Answer Question
•Validate PBI
•Sprint Review
Work
outside
the Scrum
team
•Work with SMEs, Stakeholders,
Customers
•Understand needs
•Validate Product
Product
Backlog
Refinemen
t
•Create PBIs
•Split PBIs
•Reorder the Product Backlog
Product Owner

8. In conclusion…
• Understanding what it is
• Fed as Product Owner
• Having the right traits

9. Contact Information
Richard K Cheng
richard.cheng@excella.com
703-967-8620
http://www.excella.com
Twitter: @RichardKCheng